Overview of Compute Project Categories and Links to Submission Forms
Please find a tabular description of the available project categories and links to the submission forms below. As an overview the competence network HPC.NRW developed Quick Reference Cards for illustration of the application, approval and allocation process. If you already have a project please consider the information regarding project extensions here. The following figure might help to find the best project category.
Prinicipal Investigators (PIs) are supposed to be leading scientists with a doctoral degree or a permanent position who are qualified to also take part in the scientific reviewing process. Only contact data of the institute are accepted (email, address, etc.). Please do not use your private contact data.
Please note: If the PI uses a trusted email address (fz-juelich or rwth-aachen domain) the submission can be finalized by the PI online (without paper).
Otherwise do not forget to also upload a signed version of your proposal to JARDS. You can also or email a signed an version to hpc-projects@itc.rwth-aachen.de using the mail subject "Application for Compute Time No. xxxx" after the online submission!
| Project Category (purpose) | Submission and Reviewing Procedures | max monthly computing time quota | max annual/per project |
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| Project categories for research institutions and industry | |||
| WestAI | Continuous submission. |
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(only one project per PC) |
Project categories for all applicants from any German public or government-approved university (including RWTH Aachen University) | |||
| NHR Large (large research computing project) | Quaterly submission as described here. |
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| NHR Normal (medium size research computing project) | Continuous submission as described here (****). |
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Prep / Test (test / preparation of a large research computing projects) | Continuous submission as described here. |
(max. 6 months for testing / preparing larger proposal) |
(max. 6 months for testing / preparing larger proposal) |
Project Categories for applicants from Forschungszentrum Jülich, RWTH Aachen University or universities in North Rhine-Westphalia (including universities of applied sciences (HAW)) who would like to apply for a project in the field of engineering sciences | |||
| RWTH small (small research computing projects) | Continuous submission. |
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| RWTH thesis (bachelor and master thesis, personal study practice, not for PhD thesis) | Continuous submission. | n/a |
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| RWTH lecture (education, lectures, seminars, group practica) | Continuous submission. | n/a |
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| RWTH open (employees) | available by default to scientists of |
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| RWTH open (students) | available by default to students of RWTH Aachen University |
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Note: You can apply for GPU resources for every project category. These GPU resources are internally accounted in CPU core-h, which basically maps the GPU hours (GPU-h) into CPU core hours of the host processors. At the moment one GPU-h corresponds to 24 CPU Core-h. Applications requesting a higher amount of GPU resources are to be submitted in the corresponding larger project categories (NHR-N, NHR-L).
(*) Applicants are responsible for providing any necessary software licence, please find more information here.
(**) While technical reviewing and setting up the project typically takes up to one week, scientific reviewing depends on the response time of the reviewers and typically takes about one month. Therefore an initial quota is set up when the technical review is finished. It is increased as approved by the reviewers.
(****) A „call“ for new NHR projects will occur quarterly, with the intention that – for NHR Normal – preliminary resources can be granted quickly, while the final granting decision will be made in conjunction with the final decisions about NHR Large projects by the NHR/NHR4CES panel (meets quarterly). Thus, a belated decrease of computing resources is possible.
